Warm-up:
good mornings
back squat
power snatch + snatch (to ~125)

Performance Menu WOD 121909
snatch (135,145,150,2x155 [f1],2x160 [f1], ~5x165 [f1-4])
clean + jerk (135,155,175,2x185 [fj1])

Managed to drop to bar on my lower back on a snatch miss, so I skipped the deadlifts. Also planning to skip the next rest day, so that should help me recover (not the bar on the back ...). Snatches felt ok, all misses except one lost forward. Cleans felt really bad, so I cut them short. I think I was just tired.

I managed to forget my iPod today, which normally wards off the idiots. Without it, I was subjected to warnings about my knees (from squatting too deep) and admonished for not wearing a belt. The upshot though was that I met John Dobroth (high-jumper and decathlete), and we had a great conversation between sets. Turns out John used the Olympic lifts to train for the high-jump in the late 60's, which was (and still is it seems) quite novel for track athletes. Rare enough that he derived his training methods from a Russian text he acquired through someone he knew in the CIA. Seemed to work for him, as he was one of the best high-jumpers in the world (pic above is him at a 1973 meet). And as a testament to training smart, John is still crushing it at 68! Very inspiring! I may have to start lifting without the iPod more often.